Monday, June 30, 2014

The Walk-In Closet by Abdi Nazemian

About the book:

Kara Walker has never found much
glamour in her own life, especially not when compared to the life of her best
friend Bobby Ebadi. Bobby, along with his sophisticated parents Leila and
Hossein, is everything Kara always wanted to be. The trio provides the perfect
antidote to what Kara views as the more mundane problems of her girlfriends and
her divorced parents.

And so when the Ebadis assume that
Kara is Bobby’s girlfriend, she willingly steps into the role. She enjoys the
perks of life in this closet, not only Leila’s designer hand-me-downs and free
rent, but also the excitement of living life as an Ebadi.

As Kara’s 30th birthday
approaches, Leila and Hossein up the pressure. They are ready for Kara to
assume the mantle of the next Mrs. Ebadi, and Bobby seems prepared to give them
what they want: the illusion of a traditional home and grandchildren. How far
will Kara be willing to go? And will she be willing to pull the Persian rug out
from under them when she discovers that her own secret is just one of many
lurking inside the Ebadi closet?

Praise for the
book:

“Absorbing entertainment. I walked
into Nazemian’s walk-in closet and didn’t want to walk out.” -Kelly Oxford,
author of Everything is Perfect When You’re a Liar

”Absolutely engrossing read
from page one- Abdi Nazemian has painted a world so vivid and real that even if
you know nothing of ‘Tehrangeles’, by the end you feel as if you are a part it.
I simply COULD NOT put this book down! ” -Busy Philipps

“At once wickedly funny and
devastatingly moving, The Walk-In Closet is a thrilling ride from start
to finish. Nazemian surprises with every turn he takes, telling a story that
vividly illustrates the price of living in a closet.” -Chaz Bono, author of Family
Outing, The End of Innocence and Transition

”I relished every moment of
this warm, funny, brutally engaging novel. Abdi Nazemian’s Los Angeles is both
uncannily familiar and entirely foreign. Put this in the canon of LA
literature: Nazemian has written a side of Los Angeles prevalent in real life
but rarely seen in fiction.” -Katherine Taylor, author of Rules for
Saying Goodbye

”Ladies: If you like Shahs
of Sunset you’ll love The Walk-In Closet. Abdi
Nazemian shines a white hot, entertaining spotlight on the ins and outs of
Tehrangeles. Abdi will get your inner Persian princess purring. Curl up
and enjoy this fabulous debut!” - Jessica Bendinger, author of The Seven
Rays, screenwriter of Bring it On and Sex and the City

“The Walk-In Closet is a contemporary fable of love, loss and redemption,
set between cultures and between the sexes. Written at a spanking pace, with
humor, suspense and a heart, it captures the voice of a generation and paves
the way to a new genre of literary fiction.” -Lila Azam Zanganeh, author of The
Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness

“Do you know about Tehrangeles? I
didn’t. But thanks to Abdi Nazemian’s The Walk-In Closet. I now feel
right at home among its brave, foolish, proud, unsinkable expatriates. If one
of the tasks of fiction is to bring to light a world that for whatever reasons
we haven’t bothered to see for ourselves — and to make us see that it is our world,
too — then Nazemian’s book is a success. That he then adds his unique way of
seeing — in which he marries his sharp satirist’s eye to a profound empathy —
makes this hilarious, heartbreaking first novel a triumph.” -Richard Kramer,
author of These Things Happen, screenwriter of Tales of the City,
thirtysomething, and My So-Called Life

About the author:

Abdi Nazemian is the screenwriter of The Quiet, Celeste
in the City, Beautiful Girl, and the short film Revolution,
which he also directed. He is an alumnus of the Sundance Writer’s Lab, a
mentor at the Outfest Screenwriter’s Lab, and has taught screenwriting at UCLA
Extension. He lives in Los Angeles with his two children, and his dog
Hedy Lamarr. The Walk-In Closet is his first novel.

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